Chris Hall

OCTOBER 10, 2024

“It was very important to us that we linked the remuneration of everybody at Caisse de dépôt et placement de Québec (CDPQ) to achieving our climate targets – we are one of the first investors to do this,” said Bertrand Millot , the Canadian asset owner’s Head of Sustainability. of CDPQ’s total C$452 billion (US$329.7 billion) in AUM.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This overtook the Marinara dam disaster as Brazil’s most catastrophic environmental event, which killed 19 people and destroyed the village of Bento Rodrigues in 2015. The authorities and companies involved must step up as soon as possible and prevent these wholly unacceptable events.”. Disputing divestment.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Pension fund makes case for divestment, against backdrop of increasingly positive climate policy across major markets. This conclusion was drawn after several years of engaging in discussions with the fossil fuel industry,” he said, underscoring the need for more “substantial and immediate” actions to combat climate change.

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Chris Hall

MAY 24, 2024

Public and private sector coordination provides the theme – and events of Nairobi, London and Rio de Janeiro the backdrop – for this week’s digest. Many regions are having to adapt to the realities of warmer, wetter, slow-moving weather systems, among other physical impacts of climate change.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 1, 2022

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. It is not possible to foresee or identify all such factors.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Private equity investments often demand long holding periods to allow for a turnaround of a distressed company or a liquidity event such as an IPO or sale to a public. Alpha Impact Investment Management (AiiM) Partners invests in technology-enabled companies addressing climate change while prioritizing equity and access.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

Aviva Investors expressly referred to divestment as a potential strategy to achieve these goals. State Street Global Advisors’ (SSGA) CEO, Cyrus Taraporevala, said in his letter to CEOs that the manager will support the acceleration of the systemic transformations underway in climate change and the diversity of boards and workforces.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

As global momentum builds behind transition planning, Mark Manning, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics, makes the case for a systemic response to the challenges of climate change. Arguably, we need to be thinking about transition planning as a system response to the challenges of climate change.”

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

Countries are already dealing with massive movement of peoples due to war and conflict, and now increasingly climate disasters from outside their borders, and within. Countries are already dealing with massive movement of peoples due to war and conflict, and now increasingly climate disasters from outside their borders, and within.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Speaking at the event, UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell noted the risks of desertification across the continent, which is claiming 4.4 Other areas – specifically concerning food and energy – were already being debated at this week’s African Ministerial Conference on the Environment. million hectares annually.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Road to COP28 Despite this evolution in climate awareness, the current rate of emissions growth and the uneven attempts to curb it mean that it is increasingly likely that global temperatures will exceed the 1.5°C The Church Commissioners, which manages the CoE’s £10.3 billion (US$13.2 billion (US$13.2

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

Adaptation themes will be incorporated into the network’s workstreams over the next two years. To better stimulate investment in climate resilience across Australia and New Zealand, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has developed its ‘ Road to Resilience ’ strategy.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 12, 2022

De-risking in response to global events is narrowing allocations, however, with a decrease in investment to alternative markets despite there being growing interest in areas such as green energy infrastructure. For context, 2019’s survey had 68% of charities viewing climate change as a responsibility. Risk appetite fall.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

C, company engagement on climate change will have minimal impact, prompting investors to collective engage policymakers to drive systemic change, according to Kristina Church, Global Head of Sustainable Solutions at BNY Mellon. If global temperatures rise above 1.5°C, If global temperatures rise above 1.5°C,

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Diversification or divestment are not realistic options. At last week’s PRI in Person event in Tokyo, many firms highlighted how they had already used TNFD’s LEAP approach to identify their most material risks, dependencies and impacts, with some also reporting these in annual sustainability reports alongside climate risks.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2022

The DWP issued a consultation last October on proposed changes to the Occupational Pension Schemes (Climate Change Governance and Reporting) Regulations 2021 to require trustees to calculate and disclose a portfolio alignment metric to show alignment with the goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

In just ten years, Jacobson has harnessed passion, determination and science to re-frame the way renewable energy is seen and, ultimately, accepted as a viable solution to climate change and air pollution. On the evening of July 10, 2011, Jacobson attended a swanky event in San Francisco. Climate Change Conference in Paris.

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Sustainability Matters

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In recent years there has been a global push for increased transparency on the financial implications of climate change. As extreme weather events grow in both frequency and magnitude under the changing climate, decarbonisation plans need to be adapted to build resilience to these more potent extremes.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 17, 2023

In Interlaken, Switzerland, governments conducted the painstaking business of approving the key messages for policymakers of the latest Synthesis Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), aka the world’s foremost climate scientists. In Canada and Europe, the emphasis is on transition.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 3, 2022

This compares to a second quarter 2021 Net Loss of $486 million and non-GAAP Operating Earnings of $47 million, which included results of the divested fossil and solar assets. This event can be accessed by visiting [link] to register. changes in tax laws and regulations. per share).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 6, 2022

Meanwhile in the asset management sector, Legal & General Investment Management said it would divest from Russian sovereign debt and the manager has reduced total exposure to 0.1% of AUM or £1.3 billion. .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 23, 2022

Despite suffering severe impacts from climate change, Australia remains married to coal, but alternative energy opportunities are emerging. Many of the communities dealing with this recent flooding have already had to deal with a range of cascading climate events in recent years.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 3, 2024

These were highlighted at last October’s PRI in Person event by Jan Rasmussen, Head of ESG and Sustainability at PensionDanmark. C of warming, the Inevitable Policy Response calculates that current government policies, ie those in place pre-COP28, will only limit climate change to 1.8°C

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Environmental issues have been a top priority for trustees, particularly with the publication of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] reports and various commitments to net zero,” she says. Understanding how a portfolio addresses or contributes to systemic risks will help trustees plan for the long term.”.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 29, 2023

Global perspective Also speaking at the event, John Mulligan, Director, Market Relations and Climate Change Lead, World Gold Council, said that the investment community must move away from “short-termism” with regard to how it measures value. “How do we value loss?”

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If the aim of restricting climate change to within the Paris-agreed 1.5°C C increase over pre-industrial temperatures was hanging by a thread at the end of COP26, subsequent economic and geopolitical events appear to have dealt a blow to those ambitions – at least in the short term.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

What really resonated with me was the fact that I would always have conversations with friends or family about climate change, and I would either be given one of two answers: that either it doesn’t exist, or that someday either technology or ‘they’ would solve the problem," Battochio says. . LinkedIn | Twitter. Heather Clancy.

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Waste Climate Change Supply Chain Supply Chains 517

Chris Hall

MAY 17, 2023

Technology provider firm Broadridge Financial Solutions recently published a white paper on investors’ growing interest in pass-through voting, noting how it is fostering “the democratisation of investing in a major way”, giving investors a voice in how their asset managers vote proxies on the underlying equities in a specific fund.

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3BL Media

MARCH 25, 2024

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Divestment Development 162

3BL Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Forward-looking statements reflect the company’s current expectations and projections about future events at the time, and thus involve uncertainty and risk. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S. dollar, (18) changes in tax laws or U.S.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Divestment Development 147

3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Climate risk and resilience are largely modeled by insurance companies, looking at how a company’s assets may be affected by rising sea levels, extreme heat, increasing natural disasters and other future climate events as climate change worsens. said Free.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As with virtually all gatherings of the climate community during the COVID age, this year’s Climate Week was convened as an online event — one hosted from more than 20 countries across myriad time zones rather than its usual host city of New York. .

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Richard Matthews

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

University activists are increasingly citing the oil and gas industry’s targeting of kids in the classroom as another reason to divest from fossil fuels. Climate education is a problem at many of America’s 100,000 public schools. trillion climate-focused infrastructure bill. The divestment solution.

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Richard Matthews

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental successes are easily overlooked in a world ravaged by climate change, biodiversity loss, an ongoing global pandemic and attacks against democracy. The dystopian legacy of the former president is becoming increasingly clear to all but the willfully ignorant as is his politicization of climate change and COVID.

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